Connecticut western news., 1887-02-16

fessciS Dy tho Canadian authorities, accom- panied by n resolution in relation to our trade relations. calling on Congress to pass retalia- tory measures against Canadian fish and fsher- .neMAIvv-rnor Beaver, Of Pennsylvania s;gnoo the prohloltory amendment resolution. -Silleck s. Scotied was convicted in Brook Nn, N. r., of bigamy. His crime was the re- suit of Coney Island Irritation.
 A man named Joseph Blew has been ar rested charged with the murder of the Dun nam family in Kosciusko county, Ind.
 Three men were killed at the burning of livery stable at St. Louis, Mo-, and hearse built for Abraham Lincolns funeral was de- stroyed.
 -Four ex-county treasurers of Cass county, ma, are said to have collected taxes for which the taxpayers never received credit on the tax duplicates.
 A Quaker visitor at Atlanta, Ga., was robbed of $3, 800 in cash and SPA, 800 in checks by burglars, who entered his room while he was asleep.
 Two burglars broke into the Post Office at Bound Brook, N. J., and when their presence was discovered armed citizens surrounded the place. One burglar ran for his life and kept up a running duel with the crowd till he leaped to death in the Raritan river. The other sur rendered.
 The British steamer Wells City, with a cargo of sheet tin and iron, broke from her anchorage in New York harbor early in the mcTnng, on account of ice, and fouled with the steamer Lone Star, of the Morgan line The Wells City was sunk in the North river off Christopher street.
 The miners in the Wilkesbarre region think strike is unnecessary just now.
 Colonel J. W. Melburn, of Poplar Blufr Ark, while standing in the midst of his fanli- ly, was killed by an assassin.
 Mary Baker, the fasting girl at Morrow, lnd., was still alive and conscious on the l05th day of abstinence from food.
 The Sneed brothers who murdered two Arkansas officials, have been captured and lodged in prison at Little Rock.
 By the upsetting of kerosene lamp in a bedroom at Rockford an old man and his littlo grandchild was fatally burned.
 Chicago Knights of Labor arc excited over the discovery that number of members arc in tho pay of detective agencies.
 The Boston longshoremen, it is said, will strike in consequence of tho arrival of coal loaded and trimmed by ''scab" labor in this city.
 William Reeves, thriving farmer having married daughter of William Sanders, of Grand Forks, D. T., tho latter rcplevined her, but lost his suit.
 Martin Olson, ex-postmaster of Dayton, Iowa, was arrested in Minneapolis on q charge of embedding S1 800 Government funds in January, 1884.
 The priests of St. Stephens Church, New York, took up collections at all the services Sunday. The parishoners' committee donated from their fund S2, 900 to Dr. McGlynn.
 Judge Devens, in Boston, decided that Maria Norcross, after living seventeen years with man and been introduced everywhere IS his wife, had not legally proved that rela- tonship to him.
 The police are hunting down the desper- adoes who shot the police officers to rescue their confederate, prisoner on train, at Ravenna, Ohio. Large rewards are now being offered for their capture.
 In St. Louis, William billie, who murder cd his wife by cutting her throat, and then et- tempted to commit suicide by cutting his own, has recovered so as to mako a statement of the affair, which was that they should commit suicide. He cut his wifo's throat and then his own.
 -G. o. Delamoe, a farmer, shot himself at Sioux Falls, Dak. He was unmarried and lived with his mother. While the coroners jury was holding the inquest tho mother died with all the symtoms of poisoning A bottle partially filled with poison was found in the dead mans pocket, and from other circum- stances it is believed that Delamoo poisoned his mother before taking his own life. Ho got into financial straits. "A tornado passed through tho interior Ohio. Many houses were demolished and some lives lost.
 A Virginia farmer named Dupuy killed his
 
 tempted suicide.
 The Pennsylvania Legislature is consider Ing bill to make an agreement by two-thirds | of aJury sufficient to decide a cause. The floods continue in Michigan. Eastern | Ohio was swept by a tornado which caused much damage. There was also a strong gale | in and about Elmira, N. Y., which tore down trees and played havoc with chimneys. | WASHINGTON.
 In the House general debate on the Con- sular and Diplomatic bill was finished. The Dill, by sections, will now be considered. In the House the veto of the Dependent | Pension bill was received and read. The re- | peal of the Compulsory Pilot bill is not to be urged this Congress.
 | In the Senate bill to increase the navy and appropriating SIS, ,0OO,O 900 was referred to the Naval Committee. A bill to provide mor- tars and heavy guns for coast defences and na- val vessels was referred to the Coast Defence Committee. The Tehuantepec ship railway was further considered. | The Senate concurred in the House Chi | nese Indemnity bill. Another conference con- mlttee on the repeal of the Pre-emption and | Timber Culture law was ordered. A bill for | the purchase of Ericsson's destroyer" was favorably reported. The House bill restrict ing the importing and landing of mackerel caught during the spawning season, was pass cd The Eads Ship Railway bill was discuss | ed.
 In the House an appropriation of S1 ,250, | UOO, sufficient for the erection and completion of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Post Office was passed. Senate bill to prevent obstructive and injurious deposits in New York harbor was favorably re- ported. The bill to indemnify the Chinese for losses by the mob in Wyoming in September 1885, was passed; also Senate bill prohibiting the importation of opium into the United States by Chinamen. Bill for protection ot submarine cables was passed.
 The Speaker laid before the House the Senate bill to encourage the manufacture oi steel for modern naval ordnance and fol | other naval purposes and to provide heavy | ordnance adapted to modern naval warfare. MT Reed (Rep., Mass) asked unanimous consent for immediate consideration of the bill, but MT. Holman (Dem., Ink.) objected. The bil was then referred to the Committee of Appro priations, of which Mir. Randall is Chairman The Speaker also laid before the House the Senate bill prov ding for the manufacture o ordnance for army purposes and making ap preparations for coast defences.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 -Mauna Loa, on Hawaii Island, is in erup- | ton, and the island has been shaken by earth | quakes but without serious damage. | The Belgian Government has introduced | bill into the Chamber of Deputies for extra | budget appropriations amounting to AZ, COG, ,OO( francs, of which 19 GOO, 900 francs are asked fol | pressing military measures. | The striking miners at Blantyre, Scotland | engaged in riotous demonstrations and footed a number of shops. The local police were | powerless and troops had to be called out tt | quell the disturbance. number Of arrests were made. The miners strike is spreading | in Scotland.
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